This case was presented at "Meet the Experts" in september 2015. Nucleus is a leading managed cloud provider in Belgium. We have built an infrastructure platform to host the ticket sales of the biggest tichet vendor in Belgium.

1. CASE STUDY TELETICKET SERVICE
AUTOSCALING IN THE CLOUD
David Geens, Managing Partner Nucleus
Meet the Experts – 10 sep 2015
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2. Content
1. Who am I?
2. Who is Nucleus?
3. The challenge
4. The recipe
5. Q&A
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3. Who is David Geens?
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• 41 year, husband and father,
entrepreneur & Mormon
• Managing Partner Nucleus
• Board member ISPA
• Member registrar forum DNS Belgium
• Author “Het is Cloudy vandaag”
• IT engineer & manager
• Top 20 Datanews influencial IT’ers

4. Who is Nucleus?
• 15 years of experience with expertise in hosting solutions
• Independent hosting player
• Team of 20 specialised engineers
• Located in Antwerpen
• Operational via 4 datacenters: Antwerpen, Diegem, Nossegem
en Zaventem
• More than 2500 servers under own management
• Figures 2014: € 4 mil turnover & profitable
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5. What we do: Uptime as a Service
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6. What we do: Uptime as a Service
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7. The challenge in this project
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8. The challenge in this project
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9. The challenge in this project
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10. Some figures about Teleticket Services
• #1 ticketing portal in Belgium
• 1.8 million tickets per year
• 4.5 million unique customer
database
• 25.000 tickets per 10 minutes
in topsales
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11. The challenge: small and big are both beautiful
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12. The application
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13. The challenge: security
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14. Wrong answer: vendor lock in
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15. The recipe: base ingredients
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16. The Nucleus network
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17. Cloud Servers
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18. Hardware independent
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19. High availability
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20. Always available staff
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21. Load balancing
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22. The secret ingredients
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23. Devops: definition
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24. Devops: where three expertise fields collide
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25. Devops: an endless loop
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26. Strong geeks
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27. The solution: your personal watchdog
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28. The result: working together
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29. The result: Auto Scalability
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30. The result: better security
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31. The real result
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32. Recap
• Autoscaling = possible on public, hybrid & public clouds
• Autoscaling = joint effort between sysops & dev
• Autoscaling = sum of upscaling & outscaling
• Replace “autoscaling” by “security” for same results above
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33. Q & A
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34. CONTACT
David Geens, Managing Partner Nucleus
E: david@nucleus.be
M: +32 475 60 80 11
T: +32 3 275 01 60
www.nucleus.be